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RESOLUTION NO. 20 SERIES 2003 A RESOLUTION APPROVING THE BOULDER COUNTY COUNTYWIDE COORDINATED COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT PLAN INTERGOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENT WHEREAS, an intergovernmental agreement, entitled the Boulder County Countywide Coordinated Comprehensive Development Plan Intergovernmental Agreement (the "Plan"), has been proposed among the City of Boulder, the City of Lafayette, the City of Longmont, the City of Louisville, the Town of Erie, the Town of Jamestown, the Town of Lyons, the Town of Nederland, the Town of Superior and the County of Boulder; and WHEREAS, the City is authorized to execute the proposed Plan pursuant to C.R.S. §29- 20-105, which authorizes the parties to cooperate and contract with each other for the purpose of planning and regulating the development of land by means of such a comprehensive development plan; and WHEREAS, the City is further authorized to execute the proposed Plan pursuant to the City home rule charter and state law, including but not limited to section 6 of article XX and section 18 of article XIV of the Colorado Constitution; part 2 of article 1 of title 29; part 1 of article 20 of title 29; part 1 of article 12 of title 31; and parts 2 and 3 of article 23 of title 31, C.R.S.; and WHEREAS, the purposes of the proposed Plan include supplementing various underlying comprehensive development plan intergovernmental agreements previously entered into by two or more of the parties to the proposed Plan; providing agreement by the municipal parties to the Plan to comply in certain respects with the underlying plans to which a municipal party was not a party; permitting in certain instances new extraterritorial water service; covering by a comprehensive development plan additional unincorporated areas not covered by any underlying plan, and providing for related terms and provisions within such a countywide, coordinated comprehensive development plan; and WHEREAS, the proposed Plan is intended to and will assist in preserving the unique and individual character of the City of Louisville; and WHEREAS, the proposed Plan is intended to preclude increased development and urban sprawl which would obliterate the boundaries of the municipal parties to the proposed Plan, and would, if permitted in unincorporated areas, require the provision of urban services within such unincorporated areas; and WHEREAS, the designation of certain lands within the area subject to the proposed Plan as Rural Preservation for the purpose of preserving a community buffer serves the economic and civic interests of the citizens of Louisville and meets the goals and furthers the purposes of the City's Comprehensive Plan; and WHEREAS, the proposed Plan, including specifically the annexation and utility service portions thereof, is intended to encourage the natural and well-ordered future development of each party; to promote planned and orderly growth in the affected areas; to distribute fairly and